The dems may not be left enough for you but they are your progressive party. Protesting against them for their position on Gaza is the biggest self-own in the history of democracy.
Sorry I'm not going to engage with this dumbassery. I'm not even American.
You guys shat your own bed and the stench is wafting around the globe.
The short answer to OPs question is: he still has support from republicans, oligarchs, and voters.
The reasons are complex but I think there are several.
Firstly no compulsory voting. Honestly the US could barely be called a "democracy" before the current shit show.
Also the "both sides" narrative perpetuated even by those on the left, to their own detriment. The left literally protesting against their own side.
America's history of violence, racism.
Late stage capitalism - people are desperate and will follow along with populist policies even if they are lies.
Checks and balances keeping everything just a tiny sliver to the sane side of abject chaos. Like the tariffs in April - Trump rode right up to the edge but chickened out. If he hadn't he would've lost control after the global financial economy collapsed.
Religion. Not sure what the situation is in Korea but it can't be as bad as the US. Christianity in the US is just a salve to allow assholes to justify their shit behavior.
Everyone needs to evaluate and make their own decisions, and I think proton is probably a great choice for many people.
In my own case however I'll always do my best to avoid someone's ecosystem. That's no small undertaking and probably a net detriment to my happiness but nor is it my worst attribute.
I just use a paid, vanilla email service that provides IMAP and SMTP. On my android phone I'm using FairEmail. IDEK if it has any kind of offline support. Not sure how good search is. Neither is really important to me.
I absolutely agree that mozilla has squandered it's strong position from a decade ago.
... the series of "strategic" decisions that have been unsuccessful is embarrassing really.
That said, the "shitty executives" narrative is reddit edge lord stuff. Any large successful project is going to need well paid experienced executives. Of course you can judge them harshly in hindsight, but it's naive to assume they're making poorly informed decisions.
Like in your other comment suggesting there's no evidence that users love chat bots - you can absolutely guarantee that mozilla has conducted some market research indicating that it's a feature set that will attract more users.
Of course you can engage in supposition that such an assertion is incorrect, you can even predict that it will ultimately be another failure.
However, it's hubris to suggest that your own assessment of the market is more accurate than mozilla's - exactly the kind of hubris you're accusing mozilla of.
No, we're not going to be slaves to a general AI, but it will grant unlimited power to whoever controls it.
There's a large ecosystem of "open" models available to download and develop with. Sadly IMO this open movement is too small and too slow to assail the likes of openAI, but it's something.
An open model available to everyone doesn't concentrate power.
Gen AI is not presently profitable due to the rate of innovation. Developing a new inference model needs a lot of cash for salaries. Populating that new model needs a lot of compute.
Once you have the model, the cost to query it is minimal. You can literally buy a $500 graphics card and download a model and have it perform useful tasks.
The difficulty is, if it costs you $n billion to develop whatever model today, and it's obsolete in 1 year, then thats a $n billion hit to your profitability this year. If innovation slowed down so maybe a model is still competitive after 10 years, then your costs have reduced by 90%.
There's loads of things to dislike about AI, but the profitability thing is borne of misunderstanding on your part.
The arguments against AI you're looking for are:
the environmental cost of developing new models is unconscionable. Data centers should be required to roll out their own renewable electrical infrastructure. They basically get free water, which any moment now is going to be scarce, and humans need that for... you know... drinking and stuff.
the rights infringements are unconscionable. These gargantuan corporations are just hoovering up the academic and cultural achievements of the human race.
the concentration of power will usher in a new age of authoritarianism. I don't really believe generative AI is going to lead to general AI, but if it does and someone controls the only extant general AI, we're all essentially slaves.
gen AI is making people less skillful. Of the children born today, how many will be great authors or artists compared to those born 100 years ago? Instead they will be prompt writers.
improper use is very costly. Generative AI can enhance productivity, it's improper use that does not.
It's like a machine that behaves as a bank teller, kind of automatically.